* this changeset builds a complex processing network for the first time
* furthermore, some ideas towards verification are spelled out
''verification not implemented''
* Lumiera source code always was copyrighted by individual contributors
* there is no entity "Lumiera.org" which holds any copyrights
* Lumiera source code is provided under the GPL Version 2+
== Explanations ==
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showing the Node-symbol and a reduced rendering of
either the predecessor or a collection of source nodes.
For this we need functionality to traverse the node graph depth-first
and collect all leaf nodes (which are the source nodes without predecessor);
such can be implemented with the help of the expandAll() functionality
of `lib::IterExplorer`. In addition we need to collect, sort and deduplicate
all the source-node specs; since this is a common requirement, a new
convenience builder was added to `lib::IterExplorer`
...taking into account the prospecive usage context
where the builder expressions will be invoked from within
a media-library plug-in, using std::string_view to pass
the symbolic information seems like a good fit, because
the given spec will typically be assembled from some
building blocks, and thus in itself not be literal data.
...as follow-up to yesterday's decisions
- each Port will just feature a (stable) reference to a ProcID record
- which is deduplicated and likewise refers to deduplicated symbolic tags
- and further spec and hash values are computed on-demand by this entity
__Note__: all functionality belonging to the ''Builder'' can be assumed to run **non-concurrent**
Building a precise Frame Cache is a tough job, and is doomed to fail
when attempting to tie cache invalidation to state changes. The only
viable path is to create a system of systematic tagging of processing
steps, and use this as foundation for chained hash values, linked
in accordance to the actual processing structure.
This is complicated by the secondary concern of maintaining memory efficacy
for the render node model, which can be expected to grow to massive scale.
And even while this invocation can not be fully devised right now,
an attempt can be made to build a foundation that is not outright
wasteful, by detaching the logical information from the specific
weaving pattern used for implementation, and by minimising the
representation in memory and computing the compound information
on-demand....
